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escole (1120-40)
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escole (1120-40)

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ascole;  escale;  eschole,  escol  (escoil)  
  FEW:  schola 11,299b Gdf:  escole 3,412c GdfC:  escole 9,517c TL: escole 1 3,940 DEAF:  escole 1  DMF:  école  TLF:  école  OED:  school n. 1  MED:  scole n. 2  DMLBS:  schola 2963a

s.

1acad.school: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Quant d’escole parti  Becket1 232
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  lur dist que […] ses fiz a escole alassent  S Clem ANTS 5710
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  CC. des clergeouns arderent en l’escole  LANGTOFT thiol2 482.282
♦fig.school, training ground: 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Sa curt fu de afaitement Escole, e de enseignment  S Edw paris ANTS 907
2training, upbringing: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Nurriz estes en mal escole  Gui War 342
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  (let those in orders be) de saint’ escole, En queor, en fait et en parole  Corset ANTS 503
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  (my hands) moelt sont soillez de meynt vileyn et malveis pecché [...] de cele escole sont bien aprises  Sz Med1 66
3coll.following: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Pur ceo vus di ki vulez estre De la escole nostre bon meistre, Cum bons disciples le escutez  S Clem ANTS 13834
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  La semence est la Deu parole, Li semur est Deus e s’escole  Mirur2 3959
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Jesus, ke dist tele parole A les disciples de sa escole  S Fran ANTS 550
♦band, host: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Entendez iceste parole Que dist li angeliel esscole  Mirur2 1957
4secret gathering: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  D’une maison sutive [...] unt fait lur escole  S Aub 393
( 1406 )  [...] come en conventicles et lieux secretes appellez escoles  Rot Parl1 iii 583

s. sg. and pl.

1acad.(university) schools: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Mes espandere (M.E. spele) est la quarte parole, E ceo funt lé clerjouns d’escole  BIBB ROTH (G) 732
( 1292 )  joe suy clerk conversant a les escoles  YBB 20-21 Ed I 297
2acad.studies: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  n’aveit pas lung tens les escoles hanté  Becket1 205
( c.1340; MS: s.xiv2 )  je continueray mes escoles pur tout l’an a venir  Cist Form 317.26
( 1385-96; MS: c.1400 )  vous hantés duement voz escoles et vostre estude  SAMPS1 409
d’escole
learnedly, cleverly: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Gerome, qui parle d’escole, Vers toi (=J.C.) est vains com vent ke vole  Ross ANTS 5139
de bone escole
learned, wise: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Si acuns cunte bone parole, U ren escrit de bone escole, L’envius hu[n]ist  Pet Phil 30
de male escole
ill-mannered: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Mult estes ore de mal escole Ke onur [...] ne feites A la reine  Mir N-D 179.124
de tele escole
of such a nature: 
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  (My wings) sount de tiel escoil Que joe puis estre ou ke jeo voil  Art Love 562
escole generale
general
escole de gramaire
acad.grammar school: 
( 1364-72 )  [...] qe a un joesne escoler E.P., nostre filiol qi nous avons ordené de escoleer es escoles de gramere pur un temps, [...]  TNA E101/395/2/242
aler a escole
to go to school, study: 
( c.1150; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Treis clercs alouent a escole  S Nichol wace 213
mettre a (l’)escole
to send to school: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  Puis ad escole li bons pedre le mist  S Alexis1 33
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  A escole fu mis asez de juefne ee  Becket1 201
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Ses fiz ausi fist aprendre e mist a l’escole  (ed. alescole)  Reis Engl1 60
tenir escole
to keep a school, teach: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  En cel tens iert en Lumbardie Maistre Bernard de grant clergie, En maint lieu out tenu escole  Rom de Rou wace i 235.1981
tenir escole de
to foster, inculcate: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E tut oi sa vie retrere [...] E cum ele tint de putage eschole  Mir N-D 57.285

See also:

scole 
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